If any of your friends own Xiaomi fitness trackers, you can connect your accounts by scanning a QR code within the app, Instagram style. A small firmware update was necessary with our review unit, but this didn’t take long. Linking the watch is a simple matter of setting up a Mi Fit account with some basic data (name, age, height, weight, gender), then tapping ‘Profile’ and selecting ‘Add device’. The Mi Smart Band 6 connects to the Mi Fit app, which has a refreshingly clean, uncluttered design and is easy to navigate. If you train using time and heart rate rather than distance, the Smart Band 6 could be a great little tool. Both watches also produced almost identical results for heart rate training zones. Heart rate measurement was accurate though, very closely matching that from the Polar Ignite 2, with no unexpected spikes. This may have been an issue with our phone, but the watch’s pace measurement was off as well, occasionally failing to register variations. For example, although it appeared correctly drawn out in the app, our regular 5K route (as measured on a map) was recorded as over 500m longer than the true distance – a worrying large margin of error. The watch features connected GPS (before you start a workout you’re warned that it won’t track unless there’s a connection to your phone), but in our tests it wasn’t particularly accurate.
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